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<P class="title"><A NAME="HELPRarInfo"></A>What is WinRAR<hr></P>

<P><B>WinRAR</B> <B>is Windows version of RAR archiver</B>
- a powerful tool, which allows to create, manage and control archive
files. There are several RAR versions for a number of operating
environments: <B>Windows</B>, <B>Linux</B>, <B>FreeBSD</B>, <B>macOS</B>.</P>

<P>There are <B>two versions</B> of RAR for Windows:

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  <LI>Version with <A HREF="HELPInterfaceIntro.htm"><B>graphical user
interface</B></A> - WinRAR.exe;</LI>
  <LI>Command line <A HREF="HELPConsoleRAR.htm"><B>console (text mode)
version</B></A> - Rar.exe.</LI>
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<P>WinRAR and WinRAR self-extracting modules require Windows 7 x64 or later.</P>

<h1><B><I>WinRAR features</I></B>
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  <LI>Complete support of <A HREF="HELPRARVersusZIP.htm"><B>RAR</B>
</A> and <A HREF="HELPRARVersusZIP.htm"><B>ZIP</B></A> 2.0 archives;</LI>
  <LI>Highly sophisticated, original compression algorithm;</LI>
  <LI><A HREF="HELPInterfaceIntro.htm"><B>Shell interface</B></A> including
<A HREF="HELPWinShellDrag.htm"><B>drag-and-drop</B></A> facility and
<A HREF="HELPWizard.htm"><B>wizard</B></A>;</LI>
  <LI><A HREF="HELPCommandLineSyntax.htm"><B>Command line interface</B></A>;
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  <LI><A HREF="HELPArcNonRAR.htm"><B>Non RAR archives</B></A> (<b>7Z,
ARJ, BZ2, CAB, GZ, ISO, JAR, LZ, LZH, TAR, UUE, XZ, Z, ZST, 001</b> and
several <b>ZIPX</b> types) management;</LI>
  <LI><A HREF="HELPArcSolid.htm"><B>Solid</B></A> archiving, which
can raise compression ratio by 10% - 50% over more common  methods,
particularly when packing a large number of small, similar files;</LI>
  <LI><A HREF="HELPArcVolumes.htm"><B>Multivolume archives</B></A>;</LI>
  <LI>Creation of <A HREF="HELPArcSFX.htm"><B>self-extracting</B></A>
archives (also multivolume) using the default or optional SFX modules;</LI>
  <LI><A HREF="HELPArcRecovery.htm"><B>Recovering</B></A> physically
damaged archives;</LI>
  <LI><A HREF="HELPArcRecVolumes.htm"><B>Recovery volumes</B></A> allowing
to reconstruct missing parts of multivolume archives.</LI>
  <LI>Unicode support in file names;</LI>
  <LI>Other service functions, such as <A HREF="HELPArcEncryption.htm">
<B>encryption</B></A>, <A HREF="HELPArcComment.htm"><B>archive comments</B>
</A>, <A HREF="HELPSystemSettings.htm"><B>error logging</B></A>, etc.</LI>

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